From Housing-Crisis Hangover to High-Rate Debt: Inflation and the National Debt in 2026
A 2026 update on inflation and the national debt, comparing the low-rate housing-crisis aftermath with today's higher-rate, higher-debt economy.
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Economy
Articles on jobs, wages, inequality, recession risk, inflation, public debt, taxes, and broad economic policy.
Today’s Jobs Report and What It Means for Interest Rates
The May 2026 jobs report was stronger than expected, shifting the interest-rate conversation away from cuts and back toward inflation risk.
Reasons the Economy May Avoid Recession Soon: 2026 Update
A 2026 update on whether the economy may avoid recession soon, with labor market, GDP, industrial production, and leading indicator charts.
Income and Wealth Per Person Worldwide: 2026 Update
A 2026 update on global income and wealth per person, comparing the 2012 snapshot with current GDP, wealth, poverty, and inequality data.
Reasons the Economy will not go into Recession Soon
There are plenty of reasons to be positive.
Inflation and the National Debt
Inflation makes paying it off easier
Game Theory and the Triumph of Capitalism
When you look at Capitalism you can't help but look at Game Theory. Players can come to dominate the game. Then the idea that capitalism always achieves maximum gain becomes invalid. There is a role of governments to regulate and adjudicate the game. That is not Socialism, but rather makes the "triumph of capitalism" possible.
Income and Wealth Per Person Worldwide
If there were a worldwide redistribution of income today in which every man, woman and child earned
What Might Happen if Greece Exits the Euro
As Greece stands on the brink of exiting the Euro and its looming elections ...
Greece Exit Doom and Gloom
Will it really happen?
Jobs Comparison of Bush and Obama First Terms
The main difference is private versus public payrolls
A word about taxes and capitalism
why the Buffet Rule may be important to our future.
Why Debt Keeps Increasing
We have to answer this question first
Testing Capitalism's Limits
Right now, we are experimenting with seeing how much we can do without governance
Government Job Losses
Half a million in two years.
Charts About Inequality
Charts About Inequality
Elizabeth Warren on Debt and the Social Contract
Well spoken
Housing Starts and Recessions
They go together
Federal Debt and Tax Brackets
Quite a relationship
John Williams on the Economic Outlook
Some points to ponder